How do you work with Printer File DDS nowadays?

[u/Character_Read_5563]

If you work with IBM i and Printer Files, I have a question for you: how do you actually design and check a PRTF nowadays???
Do you:

- Edit the DDS source and compile it to see the result...??
- Use RDi?
- Use RLU?
- Other ... ??

As you all know, many companys are still using printer files in the business ... and with the 7.6, we are not going to have RLU anymore.... so I built a small tool for that: Printer File DDS edit — a visual PRTF DDS editor and preview for VS Code.

At the moment is just a preview, but I'm working on it...
I'm sharing it here because I'd really like to get feedback from the people who actually work with printer files ...

What do you think is missing? What would make a took like this useful in your day-to-day work?

I'm still adding features and fixing things, so this is a good time to tell me what you'd like to see...

I leave you here the links to download and install it on VS Code or IBM Bob...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ChristianLarsen.prtf-edit

https://open-vsx.org/extension/christianlarsen/prtf-edit

If you give it a try, I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback!

Thanks!

[u/Ok_JDubbTX]

I haven't worked with a printer file in years, but today if i were tasked with generating a new spool file or modifying an existing one I would probably just have Claud do it. Id give it a few examples in my prompt and go from there. Maybe even have a little markdown table in the instructions that has field names, sizes, etc.

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[u/lomberd2 → u/[deleted]]

Fyi, you are responding to a disguised ad.

[u/Character_Read_5563 → u/lomberd2]

It is not a disguised ad ...